BILL NUMBER: AJR 26	CHAPTERED  09/03/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   103
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 3, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 26, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 24, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 1, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Honda, Romero, and Nakano
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner,
Ashburn, Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs,
Calderon, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Cunneen, Davis, Ducheny, Dutra,
Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Gallegos, Granlund, Havice, Hertzberg,
Jackson, Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville,
Lowenthal, Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, Migden, Olberg,
Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Pescetti, Reyes, Runner, Scott,
Shelley, Steinberg, Strickland, Strom-Martin, Thompson, Thomson,
Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Washington, Wayne, Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman,
Wright, and Zettel)

                        JUNE 14, 1999

   Assembly Joint Resolution No. 26--Relative to Asian Pacific
Americans.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 26, Honda.  Asian Pacific Americans.
   This measure would request the President, Congress, and every
American to recognize that it is necessary to protect the national
security at national weapons laboratories in a manner that avoids
false characterizations and stereotypes of all Asian Pacific
Americans.  The measure would urge the United States Attorney General
and the United States Secretary of Energy to fully investigate all
allegations of security breaches at national weapons laboratories and
all allegations of retaliatory actions and discrimination against
Asian Pacific Americans at national weapons laboratories and would
also request the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to
vigorously investigate and enforce employment discrimination claims
filed by Asian Pacific Americans.  This measure would reaffirm that
Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry are entitled to the same rights
and privileges afforded all Americans.




   WHEREAS, The bipartisan Congressional Select Committee on United
States Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's
Republic of China recently released its unanimous report on
diversions and theft of United States nuclear weapons design
information and other classified information, and made a number of
findings relative to the inadequacy of security programs at our
national weapons laboratories; and
   WHEREAS, The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and
the Department of Energy's Inspector General subsequently released
their own reports on the same subject; and
   WHEREAS, Some have mistakenly used these reports to impugn the
loyalty of Asian Pacific Americans, thereby creating an alarming
sense of apprehension in the Asian Pacific American community that
the loyalty and patriotism of all Asian Pacific Americans are now
being called into question; and
   WHEREAS, The sense of apprehension within the Asian Pacific
American community is based, in part, on past discrimination against
Asian Pacific Americans solely on the basis of race or country of
origin; and
   WHEREAS, The fundamental principles of American government and
jurisprudence require that the civil rights of all Americans be
protected, that any official sanctions be based on findings of fact
consistent with principles of due process, and that the alleged
actions of individuals not be attributed to an entire group based
upon unsubstantiated generalizations or stereotypes; and
   WHEREAS, All Americans are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
under the United States and California Constitutions and are
presumed by law innocent until proven guilty in a court of competent
jurisdiction; and
   WHEREAS, Asian Pacific Americans, whether citizens of the United
States of America or legal residents with applications for
citizenship pending, are Americans and this community of Asian
Pacific Americans is as loyal to the government of the United States
of America as any other American community; and
   WHEREAS, Americans of Asian Pacific ancestry have consistently
demonstrated their loyalty and patriotism by honorably serving to
defend the United States in time of armed conflict and have made and
continue to make profound contributions to America's greatness in all
aspects of American life, and in the fields of science, technology,
and business; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of California,
jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California respectfully
requests that the President, Congress, and all Americans recognize
that it is important to vigorously protect national security at
America's national weapons laboratories, and it is necessary to do so
in a manner that avoids sweeping all Asian Pacific Americans into
false characterizations and stereotypes; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature respectfully urges the United
States Attorney General and the United States Secretary of Energy to
fully investigate all allegations of security breaches at national
weapons laboratories and all retaliatory actions and discrimination
against Asian Pacific Americans at those national weapons
laboratories; and be it further
   Resolved, That anyone found to have illegally transferred nuclear
weapons development information to the People's Republic of China
should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Legislature requests the United States Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission to vigorously investigate and
enforce employment discrimination claims filed by Asian Pacific
Americans; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature hereby reaffirms that Americans of
Asian Pacific ancestry are entitled to the same rights and privileges
afforded all Americans; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Governor, the President of the United States,
the United States Attorney General, the United States Secretary of
Energy, and the commissioners of the federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and distinguished members of the
Congressional Select Committee on United States Security and
Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China.
